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Episode CXXIV – The Lowest Depths of Foulness (Elagabalus II)

Emperors of Rome

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Those Who Supported Macrinus and Elegablus Were Executed

There's no indication of wy it's taking a year to get back. I think they went to consolidate their position in syria, and then they choose to travel overland,. And i think also because macrinus had appointed lot of his own associates in the eastern provinces, they have to be removed and replaced with elegablus own associates. So he executed the governor of syria, favius agrippinus, who had supported macrinus. When the governor of arabia, pica casianus, didn't immediately declare his allegiance to elegablus, he was executed. Some of caracala's supporters, including septimius castinus, were

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